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Data Infrastructure for Common Challenges
  • Data Landscape Playbook
    • Data Landscape Playbook: status
    • What is this playbook for?
    • Who is this playbook for?
  • Play one: Explore the problem and how data can address it
    • Define how improving access to data can help address your problem
    • What type of data infrastructure does the initiative aim to create or maintain?
      • Build or manage data assets
      • Create or adopt data standards
      • Build or improve technologies
      • Create guidelines and policies
      • Build or support organisations and communities
    • Carry out initial research and engagement
    • Summary of Play One
  • Play two: Map the data ecosystem
    • Engage with key stakeholders
    • Create an ecosystem map
    • Identify gaps, barriers and opportunities
    • Summary of Play Two
  • Play three: Assess the policy, regulatory and ethical context
    • Understand the legal, regulatory and policy context of the initiative
    • Understand the ethical issues impacting your initiative
    • Summary of Play Three
  • Play four: Assess the existing data infrastructure
    • Make a data inventory
    • Assess open standards for data
    • Assess data skills and literacies
    • Summary of Play Four
  • Play five: Plan for impact when designing your data initiative
    • Plan an impactful initiative
    • Identify risks, assumptions and dependencies
    • Sketch your evaluation framework
    • Summary of Play Five
  • What comes next?
  • Acknowledgements
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  1. Play three: Assess the policy, regulatory and ethical context

Summary of Play Three

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Understanding the policy, regulatory and ethics landscape is critical for assuring positive impact when designing a data access initiative and deciding on the data infrastructure that is key to the initiative.

At this stage, you could reflect on the stakeholders in the data ecosystem that your initiative might have to engage with to ensure regulatory compliance, and the ethical considerations surrounding the data infrastructure.

Additional resources:

  • Created by Doteveryone (now hosted by the ODI), ‘’

  • International Committee of the Red Cross, ‘’

  • Privacy International (2018), ‘’

  • First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC) (2020), ‘’ and ‘ ’

  • Te Mana Raraunga Māori Data Sovereignty Network (2018), ‘’

  • Te Mana Raraunga Māori Data Sovereignty Network,

  • Te Arawhiti, ''

  • Global Indigenous Data Alliance, ‘

  • United States Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network (2020) ‘’

  • Maiam nayri Wingara Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Data Sovereignty Collective, ‘’

  • Ada Lovelace Institute (2020), ‘’

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